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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Cuneiform
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
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He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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